Example sentences of "['s] [noun] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Leapor 's response to the discomforts of agricultural labourers must be approached at different levels . |
2 | This may have been Swegen 's response to the attempts by Æthelred to get Norman help reported by Henry of Huntingdon under 1009 . |
3 | The findings were based on interviews with 501 people — a representative sample of Lothian 's population — and featured in the Regional Council 's response to the plans for reform . |
4 | BRAC 'S RESPONSE TO THE FINDINGS OF THE STUDIES |
5 | Mr Sim was chairman of the North East Water Board from 1970-75 and played a crucial role in the authority 's response to the needs of the developing North Sea oil industry . |
6 | Mr Sim was chairman of the North east Water Board from 1970-75 and played a crucial role in the authority 's response to the needs of the developing North Sea oil industry . |
7 | The Quaker mine-owners could hardly avoid the site 's exposure to the ravages of moorland weather , but they provided for the welfare of their employees , with sick pay and adult education schemes that became models for other employers . |
8 | Yet these lines contain an anger which is encountered again and again in her work , that from the constraints of a girl 's upbringing to the tyrannies of marriage , there is small hope of a woman achieving the life she wants . |
9 | Nineteenth-century concordats had improved the legal position of Roman Catholicism in many countries and often left the clergy considerable powers over such matters as education , yet Papal Infallibility , the Syllabus of Errors and the Church 's resistance to the conclusions of biblical criticism alienated intellectuals . |
10 | A weekend away from the office can lower the body 's resistance to the organisms in air-conditioning systems . |
11 | What ‘ happens ’ is linked in the protagonist 's mind to the networks of her imagination . |
12 | Above all he brought an accountant 's mind to the affairs of the Transport Department , with startling results . |
13 | THE BILL 'S concessions to the concerns of barristers and judges about extended rights of audience in the higher courts were welcomed yesterday by Mr Desmond FennellQC , chairman of the Bar . |
14 | Exemptions marked the generosity of the monarch , as with Theudebert 's concessions to the churches of the Auvergne . |
15 | At present , it 's still safe to lift one 's eyes to the hills in that quarter . |
16 | Her last film ‘ RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN ’ ( 1964 ) whose commercial and critical failure ended her career , can be seen as a woman 's reply to the eulogies of the working class male celebrated by John Osbourne and his like , and it does so by poking fun at the ideology of the male and his crude sexism . |
17 | Another occasion which demonstrated Winston 's indifference to the dictates of authority or public opinion was when I was approached by a picaresque character called John Shaheen , an American oil magnate who spent his life getting in and out of the most complicated financial transactions , seemingly always on the verge of ruin but nevertheless contriving to remain sufficiently solvent to undertake his next massive adventure . |
18 | SIR — The reports that Mr Patten , having failed to hold on to his seat in Parliament , might be wheeled out as Governor of Hong Kong ( April 16 ) are symptomatic of the Government 's indifference to the wishes of the people who actually live there . |
19 | But Henry 's indifference to the realities of the Scottish situation came out most clearly in this third , amazing , offer : if resistance to the marriage was successful , he would respond by making Arran king of Scotland north of the Forth by force . |
20 | The situation illustrates Anselm 's indifference to the compromises of practical affairs . |
21 | SOME SAY Martin Scorsese 's return to the streets of Downtown New York makes heroes of the very villains it hopes to demystify , but GoodFellas ' opening scenario leaves us in no doubt . |
22 | SOME SAY Martin Scorsese 's return to the streets of Downtown New York makes heroes of the very villains it hopes to demystify , but GoodFellas ' opening scenario leaves us in no doubt . |
23 | Harry 's return to the sources at wishwood seems very much a return to the Frazenan wood , when |
24 | Heseltine 's attitude to the likes of break-up artist Lord Hanson is not known . |
25 | The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years . |
26 | Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant . |
27 | We will send £5 worth of Sainsbury 's vouchers to the authors of all published letters . |
28 | Again , the answer seems to lie in the way that the reformulation draws the hearer 's attention to the differences between just being gone and having vanished . |
29 | But it 's important too to draw the child 's attention to the patterns of spelling , and to show him how to analyse words . |
30 | Pomeshchiks on small and medium-sized estates resented the privileges enjoyed by monasteries and looked hungrily at their lands , while the swelling needs of the Treasury drew the Tsar 's attention to the resources of the Church . |